"If America were Iraq, What would it be Like?"
Scaling the numbers like this isn't exactly the best methodology (to be understated about it), but gives some sense of how bad it must be in Iraq right now.
Would be interesting to also do a similar projection to the United State from Iraq---but under Saddam's rule. That would be quite bad and grisly, too, I'd imagine.
Excerpts:
President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country.
What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics would have to be multiplied by that number.
Thus, violence killed 300 Iraqis last week, the equivalent proportionately of 3,300 Americans. What if 3,300 Americans had died in car bombings, grenade and rocket attacks, machine gun spray, and aerial bombardment in the last week? That is a number greater than the deaths on September 11, and if America were Iraq, it would be an ongoing, weekly or monthly toll.
Would be interesting to also do a similar projection to the United State from Iraq---but under Saddam's rule. That would be quite bad and grisly, too, I'd imagine.
Excerpts:
President Bush said Tuesday that the Iraqis are refuting the pessimists and implied that things are improving in that country.
What would America look like if it were in Iraq's current situation? The population of the US is over 11 times that of Iraq, so a lot of statistics would have to be multiplied by that number.
Thus, violence killed 300 Iraqis last week, the equivalent proportionately of 3,300 Americans. What if 3,300 Americans had died in car bombings, grenade and rocket attacks, machine gun spray, and aerial bombardment in the last week? That is a number greater than the deaths on September 11, and if America were Iraq, it would be an ongoing, weekly or monthly toll.
// 9/24/2004 
